o4tuna Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 environment: macOS 11.2.1, Affinity Photo 1.9.0 In "Separated Mode" . . . When attempting to drag a layer (within the layer panel) from one document to another, the receiving document will create a duplicate of its pre-existing "Background" layer, without displaying the dropped layer. The end result is that the receiving document has two layers, both named "Background", with identical content. There's no sign of the dropped layer in the receiving document. However, using command-C to copy a layer in the originating document, and then using command-V to paste it as a new layer into the receiving document seems to always work as expected. The above seems to always be the case, regardless of how the originating and receiving documents have been opened. Opening them in Finder or within Affinity Photo seems to make no difference. loukash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Just to add, drag & drop of layers from one document to another apparently works on Windows. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 17, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 17, 2021 Hi @o4tuna, Welcome to Affinity Forums Thanks for your report. This is a known issue that's already logged to be looked at. I've bumped it to bring it up to devs attention again. If you drop the layer/object over the receiving document immediately (before its window becomes active) it should work as expected. Old Bruce 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o4tuna Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 Thanks for responding, MEB! I'll put the workaround you've suggested to use, although copying and pasting isn't the end of the world. I'm old enough to have logged some time in a darkroom, so I appreciate that pressing a few keys sure beats having to breathe in stop bath fumes. As I'm learning Affinity Photo, there is no doubt in my mind that it is quite excellent and I am so glad you are committed to making it even better. I'm looking forward to discovering its capabilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 4 hours ago, MEB said: If you drop the layer/object over the receiving document immediately (before its window becomes active) it should work as expected. Brilliant, that works here on Mac OS 10.14.6 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 21 hours ago, MEB said: If you drop the layer/object over the receiving document immediately (before its window becomes active) it should work as expected. Apparently only in the Separated window mode, which has its slew of issues on its own… Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 3 hours ago, loukash said: Apparently only in the Separated window mode, which has its slew of issues on its own… The drag/drop of layers from one document to another requires having both documents visible on-screen at the same time. On Mac, that requires Separated Mode. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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